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Dutch ‘ghost footballer’ ends up in a Danish cell | Inland

The fake pro has to pay his former club, playing at the highest Danish level, among other things 15,000 crowns, more than two thousand euros. Verhagen, who has also been active in professional clubs in South Africa, Moldova and Chile in the past, was previously sentenced to one year and three months in prison for violence against his girlfriend. Other women also say they have been harassed, cheated or abused by the fake football player.

Verhagen’s story is one from a boys’ book. He was signed to professional clubs on three different continents, which never let him play a match. His last adventure started in October 2019 in Viborg, but he was quickly taken off the training ground due to a lack of football abilities. The club reported having been contacted in July by a man who claimed to be from the large management firm Stellar Group. According to him, Verhagen would move to China in January for a substantial amount, but until then he would have to play somewhere. Both Viborg and Cape Town City and presumably other clubs would have been approached by a fake agent posing as someone from Stellar Group, of which Gareth Bale is affiliated, for example.

The police in Denmark distributed this photo after an escape from the fast but fake attacker.

The police in Denmark distributed this photo after an escape from the fast but fake attacker.

The Danish professional club indicated that Verhagen was captured without seeing him at work. “There is clearly fraud, probably involving several people in different countries,” Viborg said.

‘Relaxation important’

A mother of one of his many ex-girlfriends was amazed at the lifestyle of the ‘pro’. “I asked him, shouldn’t you run or something to stay in shape? But he said that periods of complete relaxation were actually very important, ”she says in an interview on Danish TV.

It is the umpteenth chapter in the bizarre book called ‘Bernio Verhagen’. On the first page of the book, Verhagen spent a year in the youth of Willem II, until January of 2010. After that, three more amateur clubs in North Brabant will follow. A relatively anonymous football life, as thousands of young men experience it. The story only becomes known when Verhagen comes into the sights of online news platform Vice Sports, which makes background and research stories and writes an extensive profile about Verhagen because he made a rather remarkable move abroad.

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